With a portable wooden-paneled dance floor and vibrant stage decorations, the World Music and Movement Festival Organization will bring together performances from jazz, hip-hop, pop and folk groups. Read more...
Photo: The World Music and Movement Festival will feature live music, dance and a public art project. (Monica Jeon/Daily Bruin)
Classical music has survived for centuries, evolving with each new composer’s contribution to the genre. However, music department chair Neal Stulberg said the UCLA Philharmonia student orchestra seeks to bridge the gap between older symphonic music and the more contemporary. Read more...
Photo: Conductor Neal Stulberg leads the UCLA Philharmonia in its rehearsal of “Le Chasseur Maudit” by César Franck in preparation for the orchestra’s performances at Schoenberg Hall and LACMA. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
Russell Steinberg said he felt like an outsider growing up in Los Angeles. While his friends were involved in the frenzy of popular culture, he alone preferred to find joy in classical music. Read more...
First comes tuning meditation. Musicians and audience members alike sing and listen to the sounds of their voices filling the air. Then comes a jazz number with a rhythmic twist. Read more...
Photo: Omni-Musicality Group, a world music ensemble at the Herb Alpert School of Music, will perform at the Fowler Museum Thursday. The group meshes improvisations and sound recordings to combine genres and styles. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
Listening to One Direction’s aptly named album “Four” feels like being the star of a playfully romantic music video. The pop band gained popularity when it won third place on the hit British television series “The X-Factor,” where the members met. Read more...
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Bohemian artists and beatniks flocked to San Francisco in droves during the 1950s and 1960s. At the height of this wave of migration, legendary avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Conner made the city his home and began creating filmic assemblages that juxtaposed snippets of archived footage set to music. Read more...
Photo: “Crossroads,” a 1976 film directed by Bruce Conner, utilizes footage of nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. The film, scored by Patrick Gleeson and Terry Riley, will be screened Tuesday at the James Bridges Theater as part of Melnitz Movies. (Magnolia Editions)
There’s something about the British Isles that consistently produces musical greatness; it is inherent to the country, its people and its culture. Popular culture has been defined by bands and artists from the UK; they have consistently created new genres and musical subcultures – from the Beatles’ psychedelic rock in the ’60s all the way through to the explosion of dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Read more...
